Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 30, 1907, Page 4

ADDITIONAL LOGAL MATTER: ANNUAL MEETING OF THE LADIES' LITERARY GLUB| Members of Club Held Meeting Mon-| day P. M.—Elected Officers for Ensuing Year. The annual meeting of the Ladies’ Literary club was held Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Berman. The following ecflicers were! elected for next year: i - President, Miss Hattie Allen; Vice President, Mrs. G. E. Crocker; Rec. Sec'y., Mrs. L H. Bailey; Cor. Sec’y., Miss Ella Parker; Treas.,, Mrs. I S. Arnold. The study for the past year has been Italian painting. The club will continue the study of art but will include artists of differ- ent countries and their works. Mrs. G. E. Crocker, Mrs. E. E. McDonald and Mrs. L, . Bailey were appointed a commit-! tee to arrange a program for the following year. - At the conclusion of the meet- ing a fine supper was served, ! which very pleasantly ended the year’s work of the club. Box Stationery. We have 100 boxes of choice box stationery which will be closed out at a price suitable to the purse of the buyer. We are making an exception-| ally low [price on this line of stationery as we are closing it out and hereafter will carry nothing in this line. Call at the Pioneer office, and get the pick of the choice box stationery we offer. A Fine Display George T, Baker has on dis- play at his jewelry and watch- making establishment what is probably the finest display of Pickard hand-painted china ever shown in this part of this state. There is a large and varied as- sortment and should be seen by everyone interested in the finer grades of these goods. Success With Sheep. K. K. Meland, who resides in Buzzle township, is proving that Beltrami county lands are a- mong the best in the entire United States on which to raise sheep. Mr, Meland has resided on Section 5, Buzzle township, dur- ing the past seven years, and is one of the most progressive farmers in the county. He has a tine herd of pure-bred Shop- shire sheep and derives a good revenue from the wool he sells which is produced by the sheep. His experiesce with the sheep shows that each sheep will aver- age tive pounds of wool at shear- ing time, and he always getsa good price for his wool, there be- jing a good market at Fosston, where there is a woolen mill. Many farmers in the neighbor- hoed of Mr. Meland’s farm in- tend to embark in the sheep- jraising business, Broke His Leg. John Richards, the 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Rich- ards, sustained a broken leg yesterday. While the little fellow was play- ing yesterday afternoon, he acci- dentally broke his lefc leg, just above the knee, HAZEN HAS AN OFFER TO PLAY WITH STAPLES *‘Reddy” Has Good Job With M. & 1. and Will Probably Not Ac- cept Offer Earl Hazen, the local ball player who is better known as “Reddy”’, has received a prop- osition to play with the Staples team for the remainder of the season. Hazen was signed to try out with the Duluth “White Sox” of the Northern-Copper Country League, but-did not go to the “Windy City.” It is not at all likely that Hazen will accept the offer to play with Staples, as he has a very good situation as brakeman on the M. &. 1. railway. Hazen is one of the strongest semi-professional players who has ever worn a Bemidji uniform. In addition to being a splendid pitcher, he is a good fielder and a hard and sequential hitter. Notice. All accounts due the Bemidji Eievator Co., are now due and payable to P. Fuller, agent. Interest will be charged on all accounts until paid. Bemidji Elevator Co. M. D. Stoner left last evening on a visit to Littlefork, and In- ternational Falls. He will return by way of Baudette and Spooner. Mr, Stoner will do some work for A, A. White, owner of the townsite of Littlefork, while he is away. Heowns several lcts at Bandette and Spooner, WORK TO BE PUSHED No Cessation in Buifding the Mil- waukee’s Coast Extension. EARLING RETURNS FROM TRIP President of the System Declares That Thousands of Men and Teams Are Engaged in Construction in South Dakota and Montana. Milwaukee, May 29.—President A. J. Earling and a party of other offi- cials of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway company arrived in Milwaukee during the day from a trip of inspection in automobiles over the route of the Pacific coast extension of that system. President Earling denies that there will be any cessation in the building of the big extension. He says that between the Missouri tiver and Terry, Mont., between 5,000 and 6,000 men and 3,000 teams are employed in the work of grading and between 4,000 and 5,000 men and more than 1,000 teams are at work on the line from Butte west. Tracklaying will begin June 1 from Terry eastward and from Cashmere, S. D., westward. Trains will be running between the Missouri river and Butte by Jan. 1, 1908, Mr. Earling says. VESSELS UNABLE TO SAiL Strike of Longshoremen at Philadel- phia Spreading. Philadelphia, May 29.—The strike inaugurated several days ago by the longshoremen employed by the Mer- chants and Miners’ Transportation company has spread to the men at work on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road company’s piers and to the re- ceiving clerks on the wharves of the Boston aud Philadelphia line. The steamships Parthian for Boston, In- dian for Providence and Fall River and Allegheny for Savannah are un- able to sail. More than 100 men who have taken the strikers’ places are living on two lighters iz the Deleware river. There is room on the lighters for 400 men and cots have been placed on them for that number. The men here are not organized, but weat out at the solicitation of the New York strikers. They have been receiving 20 cents an hour and 25 cents an hour overtime. They now ask 25 cents an hour and 30 cents overtime. HUGE BONFIRES BURNING. Desperate Effort to Save Fruit From the Frost. Cleveland, May 29.—The tempera- ture dropped to 40 degrees above zero during the night. This record has been equaled only twice before since the weather bureau was established in this city in 1871. Throughout the fruit belt along the south shore of Lake Erie huge bonfires were kept burning with a view to preventing damage by frost to young fruit. Ow- ing to the fact thaé there was a light wind blowing nearly all night it is not believed that the damage by frost will be heavy in this section. From other points in the state, however, reports indicate much destruction. A dispatch from Zanesville, O., says there was a killing frost throughout that county and the entire Muskingum valley and fruit has been damaged very mate- rially. el e ¢ WG ul (e e e 1 ) DUUUUO U 00 ot §$%$@ O U o Sixteen and Three Ounces Poundé Painting Time is bound to come around once in a while. wear off in time; but painting when you paint, you use Even the best paints time will come less often if, Minnesota Linseed Oil Paint Co.’s Pure Paint Mixed with pure Linseed 0il It is the accepted standard Paint, looks”best, lasts longest and cogts lcast in the long run. We carry the most complete line of paints in the county and are in a position to supply your every want in the line. Ask for Color Card. Thirty Six Colors to Choose From All goods delivered promptly. Fleming Bros., Hardware 316 Minnesota Ave. Phone 57 ROTHSCHILD PESSIMISTIC. Roosevelt and Socialists Blamed for Fall in Stocks. London, May 29.—Lord Rothschild’s views of the prospects of the stock markets are not encouraging. In an interview he said he could see no immediate prospect of improvement, adding: “The best that can be said is that the markets are no worse. Perhaps they are slightly better. But with President Roosevelt attacking the railways In one part of the world, the Income tax question and other prob- lems in France and the Socialist movement in England the public is killing the goose that laid the golden eggs and we can expect nothing more than what the market positions re- veal.” SUBJECT AGAIN BROACHED United States Desires to Secure Dan- ish West Indies. Copenhagen, Denmark, May 29.—It is stated here that the question of the acquisition of the Danish West Indian islands by the United States has heen informally broached again by the American minister, Mr. O'Brien, in conversation with the Danish foreign minister, Count Levetzau. It is con- sidered, however, that political ‘and other reasons will prevent Denmark from consenting to the sale. There is little probability that the govern- ment will be able to obtain a majority in parliament in support of the propo- sition. 5 Fifty-five Paintings Stolen. London, May 29.—Almost under the noses of the police, who were guard- ing the Royal academy pictures now on exhibition in Burlington House, one of the private galleries in Bond street, just around the corner, was swept clean of its pictures during the night. The thieves got away with fifty-five canvasses without leaving a clue to their identity. MURDERERS STILL AT LARGE Police Unable to Round Up Slayers of Armenian Priest. i New York, May 29.—Failure of the police to arrest the murderers of Rev. Kaspar Vartanian, the Armenian priest whose body was found in a trunk on Sunday, may result in the organization of groups of the better class of Armenians in different cities to prosecute the search for the mur- derers, A plan to form such an organ- fzation was proposed to the police by Matuchi Holopigian, a grocer, whose brother was formerly a partner of Sarkl Ermojlan, one of the Armenians who is wanted by the police In this case. Mr. Holopigian said that his countrymen would be able to secure information not within the reach of the police. The police authorities express the belief that there is some ground for the suspicion that a young Armenian woman who was frequently seen in company with Ermojian figures in some way in the trunk mystery. The wife of the keeper of a restaurant which Ermojian and Vartanian fre- quently patronized told the police that Ermojian introduced the priest to this young woman about a week be- fore the murder. Afterwards the priest and the young woman were seen together often and the priest said that he was'going to Hoboken to call on the young woman's parents. The police suspect that Vartanian’s murderers made use of the priest’s friendship for the girl to induce him to visit the place where he was mur- dered. KILLS MOTHER AND HIMSELF Double Tragedy Believed to Be Result of Agreement. Kalamazoo, Mich.,, May 29.—A mur- der and suicide contract, in which a mother seventy-one years old agreed that her son should take her life and then his own, developed when it be- came known that Willlam McKie, for many years a prominent druggist here, had murdered his mother and commit- ted suicide in Bright, Ont. McKie, who has been in the drug business for seventeen years, is said to have been the sole support of his mother and to have used several thou- sand dollars of her money. He be- came involved financially, partly be- cause he invested in shares of the Black Pearl Mining company, of which he was made vice president. He also induced Kalamazoo friends to invest, but the shares produced no dividends. Dr. W. H. Scott of Kalamazoo, who knew McKie well, says McKie was very fond of his mother, writing her every week. He thinks from conver- sations he has had with McKie that not only financial difficulties, but fear of insanity, was the cause of his re- solve. POLICE AND GOULD CASE. Officers Guilty of Indiscreet and Im- proper Work. New York, May 29.—The investiga- tion of the police department in con- nection with the Gould divorce case has disclosed no criminal evidence against any of the officers involved, according to a statement made by Police Commissioner Bingham. The investigation did, however, develop the fact that some of the officers were guilty of indiscreet and improper work. The commissioner also said that some of the officers did not tell the truth when questioned and that they will be dealt with later on. It is the commissioner’s intention not to permit the investigation to rest at this stage. “We shall continue to investigate along the same lines we have fol- lowed,” said General Bingham, “and that will be an investigation of the police department and not an investi- gation of the Gould case.” SLASHED BY A STILETTO. Attempt to Assassinate Pittsburg Ital- ian Editor. Pittsburg, May 29.—An unknown Italian made an attempt to assassinate M. Cancelliere, proprietor and editor of the La Trinacria, an Italian paper. The assault took place about 1 p. m. on Grant street near the office of La Trinacria. Cancelliere was conversing with W. 18, Billows, an attorney, when the would-be assassin came up from the rear and before Mr. Billows realized what had happened the man had slashed Cancelliere across the right side of the face with a small stiletto. The weapon made a wound about three inches long and one inch deep, the Dblade just grazing the jugular vein. Had it penetrated one-eighth of an inch at this part of the neck the vein would have been severed. The Italian then fled and escaped. Two Men Fatally Stabbed. Huntington, W. Va., May 29.—Henry Wright, a wealthy contractor of this city, and his nephew, Claude Newman, were fatally stabbed by Clell Perkins and Thomas Lyons. Wright and his nephew were driving to the Wright home, south of the city, and just be- fore arriving there discovered Perkins and Lyons on Wright’s premises. Upon ‘Wright censuring Perkins and Lyons for trespassing they turned on him and made a deadly assault with kaives. Democrats Vote Against Bill. Albany, N. Y, May 29.—The sen- ate, by a votg of 38 to 8, passed the assembly bill providing for a recount of the ballots cast in the McClellan- Hearst mayoralty election of 1905 in New York city. One Republican voted with seven Democrats against the bill, which is one of the measures spe- clally urged for passage by Governor Hughes. EXPECT TO PAY FINES. wiil Defendants in Lottery Cases Plead Guilty. Wilmington, Del, May 29.—Indioa- tions that the end of the government prosecution’ of the Honduran lottery cases will come soon by the easy process of pleas of guilty and the im- position of fines are apparent in rela- tion to the indictments against John M. Rogers, Jesse K. Baylis and Lester R. Baylis of this city. They were in- dicted by the federal grand jury at Mobile, Ala., the former for sending -from one state to another the lottery fickets which were printed at Rogers’ printing establishment in this city. In response to subpoenaes issued by the United States district court at Mobile, Ala., citing them to appear there on June 4, they will start for Mobile on Saturday next. Their pres- ent intention is to plead guilty to the indictments and the fpresumption is that the penalty will be a fine, with- out imprisonment. This fine, ac¢ord- ing to arrangements made with high officials of the late Honduran lottery, will be paid out of the company’s treasury. HTTORNEY 1S WARNED Court Threatens to Jail Counsel in Frisco Boodle Trial. TALESMAN TELLS OF HOLDUP Exciting Incident Occurs During the Examination of a Prospective Juror Whose Occupation Is That of a Street Contractor. Ban Francisco, May 29.—In the trial here of Mayor Eugene Schmits, charged with extortion, there was an exciting incident that led to a threat by Judge Dunne' to send Attorney John J. Barrett of the defense to jail for contempt. It occurred during the examination by Assistant District At- torney Heney of Talesman J. R. Blanchard, a street contractor. “Did you ever pay a $400 commis- sion for the collection of one of your claims against the city after it had Pickard | Hand Painted On display this evening at our store. Leave your or- ders with us for any spec- ial order work: been held up by the board of public works?” demanded Heney of Blanch- ard. “Well, not recently,” sald Blanchard. “How long ago?” “Well, I paid it to Maestretti.” “Oh, you did. And when?” “Well, it was about a year and a half ago—just after the fire. Frank Maestretti was at that time president of the board of public works. He was #ater removed by the mayor.” “And did you,” demanded Heney, “go to the mayor and complain of this holdup?” “I tried to see him,” replied Blanch- ard. “I went to his office half a dozen times, but I never could find him. Maestretti was the only man that ever held me up.” “Did you make any effort, Mr. Blanchard, to lay this matter before the grand jury and have Maestretti punished for his crime?” pursued Heney. Attorney Barrett sprang to his feet. Barrett Starts Trouble. “We object to that question,” he cried “Maestretti is a member of this prosecution and —" Heney jumped to his feet, his face red with anger. “That’s false, Mr. Barrett,” he shouted, “and you know it.” “It’s not false and when you say it is vou are falsifying,” retorted Barrett, hotly. . -~ “Mr. Barretf,” sajd Judge Dunne, “if you interrupt counsel again like that I will send you to jail.” Barrett started to protest that he had a right to be heard with his cli- ent’s interest, but Judge Dunne cut him short with a curt order to be geated. Then Judge Dunne turned to Mr. Campbell and sald: ~. “Mr. Campbell, if you are going to conduct this case I want you to do it alone. This court will not suffer any further interference by associate counsel. T make the same ruling with regard to the prosecution. One attor- ney must speak for each side.” Former Judge Fairall of the defense resented the court’s remarks, demand- ing to know whether any imputation was meant against himself. Judge Dunne replied: “I have made a ruling, Mr. Fairall.” “Then I except to the remarks of the court as being improper,” Fairall rejoined. NEW VENIRE ORDERED. Adjournment Again Taken in Hay- wood Murder Trial. Boise, Ida, May 29.—The second special venire in the Haywood case has been exhausted, the jury is still incomplete and Judge Wood, adjourn- ing the court till Friday, has ordered Sheriff Hodgin to summon another panel, this time of sixty-one men. The odd number was jocularly asked for by the defense in the hope of chang- ing the luck-that has dogged the even numbers used. The work of jury filling is stopped at the vacancy created by the seven- teenth peremptory challenge, so that there remain three more peremptory challenges. Besides that there is a chance that Juror Tourtellotte, who objected to the infliction of the death penalty save in war or anarchy, will be excused when it comes- time finnlly to swear the jury and Juror ‘A. P. Burns is suffer- ing from Ilumbago. These -ecircum- stances leave the completion of the Jury in doubt. They may accomplish the trick by Saturday night and clear the decks for the actual action of the trial on Monday morning and then again the jury may not be completed until some time next week. Prominent Brooklynite Suicides. New Yerk, May 29.—The body of Frank A. Sperry of Brooklyn, former corporation tax commissioner, was found in the East river during the day. Mr. Sperry was private secretary to Secretaries of the Treasury Folger and Gresham, was an assistant cor- poration counsel of Brooklyn during the administration of Mayor Schieren and later served a term as a member of the state legislature. The loss of employment and the mental collapse Jf his wife are supposed to have so depressed Mr. Sperry that he drowned himself. General Strike Imminent. Buenos Ayres, May 29.—The Great Western Reilway company, whose em- ployes are on strike, has re-established traflic, having secured new men. The dissatlsfaction has spread to the other lines and a general railway strike seems imminent. BODY EXPOSED TO VIEW. Crowds Take Farewel™®Look at Re- mains of Mrs. McKinley. Canton, O., May 29.—Long before the time set to admit to the McKinley home those Who might desire to take a farewell view of the body of Mrs. McKinley there had gathered in front of the famous North Market street cottage a crowd of people made up of Geo. T. Baker & Co. Located in City Drug Store misslon. Neighboring cities and vil- lages and the surrounding country contributed to the list of those who passed through the McKinley resi- dence. Inspector Sutton of the United States secret service arrived in Canton dur- ing the day. He consulted with Chief of Police Smith and together they made plans for the proper protection of the president and other distin- guished visitors during their stay in this city. Chief Sutton and Chilef Smith went over the line which the | WANTED: WANITS v ONE CENT A WORD. e e e e —— ~HELP WANTED. WANTED—For U. S. army, able- bodied, unmarricd men be- tneen ages of 19 and 35, citi- zens of Uritcd States, of geod character and temperate babits, who can =peak, read and write English For in- forma i n apply to Recruiting Offizer, Miles Block, Bemidji, D: For the U. S. Mar- ine corps; men between ages 21 and 35. An opportunity to see the world. For full infor- mation apply in person or by letter to 208 Third Street. WANT D=Chambermaid, dish- washer and dining room girl, Hotel Brinkman. WANTED—Good lady cook and a laundry girl. Palace Hotel, Blackduck. "Chambermaid. Ia- quire of Markham hotel. WANTED — Two waitresses at City hotel. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—One, Five acre lot in villrge of Nymore, cleared ready for crop—Will sell cheap ior cash. Enquire of R. Boehm, Bemidji Cash Shoe Store. FOR SALE: Ten head heavy draft horses and harness. funeral cortege will take from the McKinley home to Westlawn 'ceme- tery and their knowledge of this will be utilized in stationing local men and detectives to prevent any undue dem- onstration. Heath’s barn. rear of postoffice building. FOR SALE—Magnificent mocse head, mounted; will be sold cheap. Inquire at this office, REPORTS EXAGGERATED. Official Story of Alleged Assaults on Japanese. Washington, May 29.—At the cab- inet meeting Attorney General Bona- parte laid before the president and Root the report of District D n of San Francisco on the alleged assault on Japanese resi- dents of that city. The report, Mr. Bonaparte says, shows that the first stories of the alleged assault were exaggerated and that the difficulty ap- peared to be a lack of police protec- tion on account of the street car strike. Secretary Root took the re- port with him and if any further ac- tion is taken it will be by the state department. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS, ‘While on trial on a charge of having murdered an Italian butcher in Brook- lyn Rocco Papagiro, an Italian, com. mifted suicide Friday in jail by hang- Ing himself with his belt to his cell door. Dispatches to Dun’s Trade Review indicate that improvement is slow in business and agricultural conditions, but most sections of the country ex- perience somewhat more seasonable weather. George F. Chapmean, vice president and general manager of the United Railroads, is dead at San Francisco. Mr. Chapman contracted a cold a week ago which rapidly developed into pneu- monia. He was forty-four years of age. It Often Comes. In a Scotch Sunday school the lady teacher, after speaking on the subject of death, asked, “And what comes aft-| er death?” Instantly a little girl called | FOR SALE: Lakeshore resi- dence property. Easy terms. Inquire of J, ¥. Gibbons. FOR SALE OR RENT—Summer houseat Grand Forks Bay. In- quire of J. F. Gibbons. LOST and FOUND FOUND: Plain gold band ring, ladies first name engraved in- side. Owner can identify at office of Jerrard Pib. Co. LOST—Bunch of keys on small . chain. Finder please leave at Pioneer. FOR RENT. FOR RENT: Two nice rooms for light housekeeping, In- quire at Midway store. MISCELLANEOUS. PUBLIC LIBRARY — Open Tuesdays and Saturdays, 2:30 to 6 p, m. Thursdays 7 to 8 p. m. also. Library in base- ment of Court House. Mrs. E. R. Ryan, librarian. WANTED—To buy a rowboat; apply to Sentinel office. £OLEYSKIDNEYCT Ba'tes Kidneys and Bladder Righ:d FOLEYSHONEY-=TAR out eagerly, “A fight about the money.” | | for children; safe, sures No opiates Notice to Horsemen 1760 pounds. barn in Bemidj1. youth and old age. From the public | with blanched faces and in hurried whigpers. awaited their turn for ad- schools came children in troops who,]’ Will make the season as follows: 30 and July 14, at’ J. J. Jenkinson’s farm, Hubbard Co.; June 9, 23 and July 7 al Nary, Minn.; the balance of the time at my Owners of mares % the breeding of horses are always welcome at the above men- tioned places to see this horse. Terms, $2 down and the bal- The Black Prince, Sired by Black Diamond, and he by Brilliant, is a beautiful black, American bred Percheon, seven years old, weighing June 2, 16, others interested in ance, $8, when the mare is known'to be with foal. WES WRIGHT, Owner, Bemidji, Minn. M. SPLAN, Mgr.